RE:Re: [TCLUG:6056] Help installing RH5.2 on a Laptop

["chad" <chad@speed-racer.com>]

or...
windows 9x can do all caps filenames, you just have to tell it you want to.
go to exploder and goto view, (folder) options, view tab, then in the box
you will see a checkbox for "allow all upercase names"  tick that and you
will be able to ren rpms to RPMS, grok?

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Original Message
From: "Ben Luey"<lueyb@carleton.edu>
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:6056] Help installing RH5.2 on a Laptop
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:10:18 -0500 (CDT)

>With redhat 6.0 and I think 5.2, you can boot of the cdrom. If you can do
>that, then the install should be quite easy.
>
>Good Luck,
>
>Ben
>
>
>On Mon, 17 May 1999, Scott K. Johnson wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm trying to install RedHat 5.2 onto a friends laptop.
>> 
>> Here's the problem.  He can only use a CD-Rom module OR the Floppy
>> module.  He can't have both plugged in at the same time (there's only
>> one bay...).
>> 
>> I can't get my 3C575-TX PCMCIA network card to initialize properly to
>> do a network install, so...
>> 
>> I have copied all the install files onto his win95 partition, however,
>> when the time comes in the install screens, I keep getting an error -
>> "error opening directory".  I've got a directory named RedHat in this
>> top level directory, with the base & RPMS directories directly under
>> that.  The only thing I notice, is that win95 doesn't let me name the
>> RPMS directory in all uppercase, so it looks like "Rpms"...
>> 
>> In the log, there are two entries:
>> 
>> Unable to load NLS charset: cp437(nls_cp437)
>> Unable to load NLS charset: iso8859-1(nls_iso8859-1)
>> 
>> Anyone played with this at all?
>> 
>> Do I have any other options?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Scott K. Johnson
>> skj@visi.com or sjohnson@hetepu.net
>> http://www.hetepu.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
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